DIRECTORY.] WARWICKSHIRE. NEWBOLD PACEY. 171 Taylor Henry (Mrs.), farmer Townsend Charles, shopkeeper, & agent Victoria Reading Room(William Alsop, Taylor Thomas, carrier for W. & A. Gilbey Limited, wine & caretaker) Tolley David, farmer spirit merchants Wall David, farmer Tolley George, farmer Townsend Thomas, farmer "VVatson Charles, builder & contractor Towns end John, farmer, Lees on house Townsend William, carrier Webb William, blacksmith NEWBOLD-ON-AVON, in Domesday "Newebold," was erected here in I879· Here are blue lias lime works, is a parish and village on the Avon, about I! miles belonging to the Rugby Portland Cement Co. The north-west from Rugby station, in the South-Eastern trustees of the late Edward Allesley Boughton Ward division of the county, Rugby division ofl Knightlow hun Boughton-Leigh esq. of Brownsover Hall, are lords of dred, Rugby petty sessional division, union and county the manor and principal landowners. The sl)il is mixed court district, rural deanery of Dunchurch, archdea with clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, conry of Coventry and diocese of Worcester. The Oxford barley, oats, peas and turnips. The area of the entire canal passes close to the village, and the London and parish is 4,020 acres; rateable value, £10,029; the North-Western and Midland railways through the parish. population in I89I was 723. The church of St. Botolph, pleasantly situated on a Cosford! is a township, I mile north-east; rateable height, is an ancient building of stone in the Early value, £992, with a population in I89I of 64. Gothic style, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, Little Harborough is a hamlet I mile north-north-west. aisles, north and south porches, and an embattled west Little and Long Lawford will be found under a ern tower, containing a clock and 6 bells: the interior separate heading. was repaired in I853, and contains s-everal monuments Parish Clerk, William Turland. to members of the Boughton family, who have long Post Office.-Henry Meddows, receiver. Letters arrive possessed this manor, amongst which are the tombs of through Rugby about 6.20 a.m. Box cleared at 7.IO Sir Edward Boughton, 1548, and Elizabeth (Catesby), his p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at wifa, I583, ~nd of Sir William Boughton bart. M.P. of Rugby Lawford, who died July 22, I7I6: there are 656 sittings, 277 of which are .f.ree. The register dates from the year A School Board of 7 members was formed February n. I559· The living is a vicarage, with the chapelry of I876, for the united districts of Newbold-on-Avon, Cos Long Lawford annexed; average tithe rent-charge £73, ford & Little & Long Lawford. William G. Atkinson. net yearly value £4oo, including 205 acres of glebe, with Albert st. Rugby, clerk to the board & attendance offer residence, in the gift of the trustees of the late E . .A. B. Board School (mixed), opened in I878, for I04 children; Boughton-Leigh esq. and held since I852 by the Rev. average attendance, 84; Thomas Carr, master; (in Theodosius Egerton Boughton Ward Boughton-Leigh fants'), for 79 children; average attendance, 49; Miss M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge. A Wesleyan chapel Pelling, mjstress NEWBOLD-ON-AVON. Goode William, coal dealer Smith Fanny Lee (Miss), farmer Boughton-Leigh Rev. Theodosius Hall .Adelaide Ann (Mrs.), Three Horse Sutton Samuel, butcher Egerton Boughton Ward M . .A.Vcrge Sh
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